From ontogenesis to phylogenesis: What can child language tell us about language evolution?

Biology and Knowledge Revisited: From Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 255-286

  Slobin, Dan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410611970     Document Type: Chapter

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